Oneiropolitics as Politics of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis as askesis.

Psychoanalysis as a Vocation

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...

Psychoanalysis as a cross-bearing.

The term â€oe¿¿ psychoanalysis†• has a triple usage. First, it describes a connected body of observations about unconscious mental pro cesses, systematically classified and more or less colligated and brought under general laws. This first meaning places psychoanalysis among the sciences, but a difficulty at once arises ; for the phenomena with which psychoanalysis is con cerned, and the meth...

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...